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TWENTY HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL CELEBS’ MUGSHOTS

MetalSucks — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:00:16 +0000

OZZY OSBOURNE TOMMY LEE (MOTLEY CRUE) VINCE NEIL (MOTLEY CRUE) NIKKI SIXX (MOTLEY CRUE) VINNIE VINCENT (KISS) STEVEN TYLER (AEROSMITH) RICHIE SAMBORA (BON JOVI) BRET MICHAELS (POISON) KURT COBAIN (NIRVANA) MIKE STARR (ALICE IN CHAINS) MARILYN MANSON SCOTT WEILAND (STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, VELVET REVOLVER) TRIPP EISEN (STATIC-X, DOPE, MURDERDOLLS) SCOTT STAPP (CREED) PAUL GRAY (SLIPKNOT) [...]

CONTEST: WIN A WHITECHAPEL VAPORIZER!!!

MetalSucks — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:20:08 +0000

On June 19, Whitechapel will release their new, self-titled album. Punishing, massive, and full of infectious anthems, Whitechapel is without a doubt, the band’s strongest work to date (pre-order it here). And we’re teaming up with Metal Blade Records and Silver Surfer Vaporizers to celebrate in the most MetalSucks-appropriate way we can think of: by giving one lucky MS reader [...]

THIS BAND TAUGHT ME A NEW WORD

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:00:35 +0000

So this morning I saw the headline Vaginal Penetration Of An Amelus With A Musty Carrot Posts Teaser For New EP “In Involuntary Abortion We Trust” on Metal Underground, and once I Googled the band to make sure I wasn’t just being trolled, I had to look up the word “amelus.” It means “a limbless [...]

INSANE 14-STRING DOUBLE-NECK JAZZ SHREDDER FELIX MARTIN SIGNS WITH PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:30:04 +0000

This is The Year of Jazz-Fusion Metal, and though we’re only five months deep into 2012 things show no signs of slowing down. First T.R.A.M., then Trioscapes, and now Felix Martin — I’d say we have a legit rising trend on our hands. This is Felix Martin, a Venezuelan guitarist who uses a custom lefty guitar [...]

I THINK MATT HEAFY IS TROLLING US ALL

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:00:54 +0000

For my eleventh birthday, my very supportive, liberal parents bought me an electric guitar. I was so excited that I immediately began to rock out, despite the fact that I had no clue what the hell I was doing. I even recorded my jam session on cassette, because I’d heard somewhere that Joe Perry always [...]

KING OF METAL DAVE HILL ANALYZES CANNIBAL CORPSE ALBUM ART, DEEMS BUTCHERED AT BIRTH “TOO CHRISTMAS-Y”

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:30:27 +0000

DAVE HILL STRIKES AGAIN! In his latest video for Metal Injection, The King of Metal — easily one of the funniest dudes in extreme music — gives an in-depth analysis of the album art of Cannibal Corpse. And, as always when Mr. Hill is involved, the results are absolutely priceless. Watch: Dave Hill just released [...]

CHUCK SCHULDINER’S MANTAS TAKE ON THE “EVIL DEAD”

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:00:38 +0000

If you’re a Chuck Schuldinerfanatic — in other words, if you’re a death metal fan, or really just a metal fan at all — you’ll probably be more than a little curious to hear the demos of Mantas, which was Schuldiner’s band before the legendary Death. Lucky for you, then, that Relapse is going to release [...]

NEILSTEIN SOUNDSCAM: THE RIZE OF JACK BLACK

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:58 +0000

There weren’t a whole lot of metal debuts last week, but the few new records that did come out all landed with a splash. After the jump, sales numbers from Tenacious D, Godsmack, Hot Water Music and Shadows Fall. As always, the rankings are from the “Current Hard Music” chart. 1 TENACIOUS D – RIZE [...]

AXL ROSENBERG VERSUS HELLYEAH’S TOM MAXWELL: THE VENN DIAGRAM

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:00:14 +0000

-AR [via Ultimate-Guitar.com and The PRP]

“TAKE HOLD! GAIN CONTROL!” – BEHIND THE SCENES OF MADBALL’S REBELLION

Gary Suarez — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:30:14 +0000

Continuing a release tradition that appeared, for a time, dormant, Madball are readying the release of a six-track EP of new material and re-recorded Ball Of Destruction-era cuts. Yet unlike prior works — which have appeared on labels like Roadrunner, Epitaph, and most recently, Good Fight — the Rebellion EP comes courtesy of The BNB [...]

STRAY FROM THE PATH GET ALL RAGED UP ON “VIETNOW” COVER

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:39 +0000

If you were a teenager during pretty much any part of the ’90s and you were into heavy music, Rage Against the Machine were at some point really important to you. I realize this is lost on today’s younger generation, maybe because RATM haven’t released any new music in forever or maybe simply because the [...]

GOJIRA’S “L’ENFANT SAUVAGE” VIDEO IS FRICKIN’ SWEET

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:20:05 +0000

Gojira have debuted the video for the title track to their new album, L’Enfant Sauvage, over at Brooklyn Vegan, and in typical Gojira fashion, it does not disappoint. Partially animated in a moody, stop-motion style reminiscent of a Tool clip, I’m not entirely sure I understand what the hell is going on in the damn [...]

HOLY SHIT, THE NEW GAZA ALBUM ART IS SWEET

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:00:36 +0000

Gaza have unveiled the album art for their new, y’know, album, No Absolutes in Human Suffering, via their Facebook page, and man oh man, is it ever awesome. I mean, I might be a little biased, ’cause we’re friends with the artist, Mike Wohlberg – he did this for us and this for us — but no [...]

THIS ORCHESTRAL COVER OF CONVERGE’S “DARK HORSE” IS PRETTY SWEET

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:30:42 +0000

I just saw (well, heard, really) this orchestral cover of Converge’s Axe to Fall track “Dark Horse” over at Metal Injection, and on the whole, I love it — I mean, it sounds like it could be the score for some kinda-zany gothic pseudo-horror movie, like maybe something Tim Burton would have made before he gave [...]

MUNICIPAL WASTE AND TOXIC HOLOCAUST TRAP YOU IN HELL

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:36 +0000

Good morning! Did you sleep well? Yeah I don’t really care I was just askin’ to ask. Anyways, remember that new Municipal Waste/Toxic Holocaust split we told you about a few weeks ago? The one with the totally clever name, Toxic Waste? Well, Decibel is now streaming two of the four tracks on the split — [...]

I wrote a slam metal song about DEMI LOVATO (srs)

Sergeant D — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:00:44 +0000

That’s right guise, this is the first demo from my new ‘friendzone slam’ band ENPEDESTALMENT! It’s basically about how much DEMI LOVATO means to me, and how her brave struggle with addition helped me deal with a lot of crazy s— I was going through. Thanks bb, I hope these lyrics mean as much to [...]

COMPLETELY UNREADABLE BAND LOGO OF THE WEEK: WIN A COPY OF DRAGONFORCE’S THE POWER WITHIN!

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:30:07 +0000

Hip-hip hooray for reader Dakota Sharer! Dakota correctly identified last week’s logoas belonging to the band Coprobaptized Cunthunter, and consequently wins a 7″ single of Van Halen’s “She’s the Woman.” Go go Dakota! This week we have another sexcellent prize for you, courtesy of Roadrunner Records: not one but two copies of The Power Within, the latest [...]

HE CARES A LOT: HELP FNM’S RODDY BOTTUM RIDE AGAINST HIV

Anso DF — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:00:26 +0000

A dude could be kinda defeated and detached about AIDS, as prevention is continually undermined by ignorance (cough religion) and poverty, and a cynic might imagine a potential cure getting suppressed or likewise manipulated for profit. After all, eviler shit has happened before. But Faith No More/Imperial Teen superstud Roddy Bottum does not share your [...]

THE BEST/WORST MUSIC VIDEO EVER OF THE WEEK

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:30:36 +0000

This video is actually a really real thing. Some highlights: nice gigantic mound of sand in front of the band in the warehouse random chick dancing next to said mound of sand (probably the singer’s GF) lol @ at all the babes lined up at the bar to greet these lulu lemons the singer taking [...]

ROCK OF ÆGES

Satan Rosenbloom — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:00:34 +0000

Check your preconceptions at the door when you’re first crossing The Bridge. There’s nothing on ÆGES’s debut album as metallic as bassist Tony Baumeister’s other band 16 or attitudinal as guitarist Mark Holcomb’s old hardcore band Undertow; the songs on The Bridge are way less conventional than what vocalist/guitarist Kemble Walters plays in The Blank [...]